- Roedy Green
Roedy Green (born "Munroe Frederic Compton Green" on
February 4 1948 ) is a Canadian programmer, independent computer consultant, and activist. He is well-known on the Internet for his Java & Internet Glossary [cite web
author = Roedy Green
title = Roedy Green’s Java & Internet Glossary
url = http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html] , and his popular essay "How to Write Unmaintainable Code" [cite web
author = Roedy Green
title = How To Write Unmaintainable Code
url = http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmain.html] .Roedy began his programming career in 1963 (at the then unheard-of age of 15), writing
Fortran timetable scheduling software for theWest Vancouver Secondary School . [cite web
title = Roedy Green
url = http://immuexa.com/company/people/roedy.jsp
publisher = Immuexa]In August 1969, he came out as
gay . In 1971, based on his experiences, he self-published the booklet "A Guide For The Naive Homosexual" (also known as "the blurb"), and became involved in the founding of theGay Alliance Toward Equality (GATE), later serving as its second chairman (August 1971 to July 1972). [cite web
title = Roedy Green
url = http://tidesofmen.org/green_roedy.html
publisher = Tides of Men (wayback|http://tidesofmen.org/green_roedy.html)]In 1979, he worked with
John C. Lilly onProject JANUS , writing hardware interface software and a dolphin-controlledEtch-A-Sketch . Later, as part of volunteer work forThe Hunger Project , he created the programming language Abundance.Roedy contracted
HIV in 1985, and maintains a wide variety of resources on his website for people seeking more information about this disease.During the Makah whale hunt of 1999, Roedy Green achieved a degree of notoriety; in an essay on his website he labelled Makah people as "alcoholics and yahoos", despite his admissions that he has never met a Makah person, or been to Makah territory. Because of this and other postings on the subject of the Makah hunt, he has been subject to accusations of racism. Equating the eating of a whale with cannibalism, he famously declared that it was as though "they (the Makah) killed and ate the Dalai Lama".
References
External links
* [http://mindprod.com/ Canadian Mind Products] , Roedy's website
* [http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biog3/gree05.html Biography] at Matt & Andrej Koymasky's "Famous GLTB People"
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